Here’s a silly waste of time I thought of while looking at my browser history. I found myself bringing up certain websites by clicking in the address/awesome bar, pressing a single letter, and hitting enter. Things need to be checked pretty consistently to get that sort of emergent behavior. So, I wondered, what’s the top entry in the history for each letter of the alphabet?
Safari 4.0.2 (4530.19) is getting weirder. This is running on Tiger (10.4.11). The New Tab, New Window, and Quit Safari menu items are all greyed out or disabled. The hotkeys for new window or new tab do nothing. The Safari window disappears when I invoke Expose’s All Windows or Application Windows. Attempting to close the window fails [...]
Apple’s Frontrow provides for ability to select and play arbitrary video files, usually from the ~/Movies/ directory. I take issue with the file browser user interface.
Given a series of Movies, the interface works quite well. It obvious that this was the experience it was polished for.
However, given a directory with a series of TV Episodes, [...]
Children are taught very little with respect to their approach to the internet, which is probably the crux of another problem. One, I argue, that is more significant.
First and foremost, if they are taught anything at all, it’s a very shallow “don’t tell anyone anything personal about yourself” mentality. If this terrible message succeeds, the [...]
I just upgraded to from Tiger (10.4.10) to Leopard (10.5.5), and found the behavior of keyboard+click combinations in Mail.app to have changed, in quite an annoying manner. I used to use the following techniques in Tiger’s Mail.app to sort large volumes of mail, usually when marking as spam.
Scenario 1
Given a set of messages, 1…..2…..3…..4
Click a mail [...]
Tom Smith has torn something in his leg climbing up onto the stage at the Ark in Ann Arbor. As a result, this filker is in the hospital. Being a poor starving artist filker, he could really use a little help with the medical bills.
In return for a donation of any size, a group of [...]
I know this is old news, coming from April 2007, but it has been bugging me all year.
How the hell does a 30 year old woman pretend to be a 14 year old boy, move in with a 14 year old girl, be in a relationship for a year, have “the sex” with her, and [...]
I’ve been looking for AMV ideas outside of drama, tending toward fun-pop-action, or romance. If I’m going to go with romance, it should be between cute girls who don’t know how to express themselves. I’m sure that Kona-chan would approve.
Did you ever think of me
As your best friend
Did I ever think of you
I’m not complaining
I [...]
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This is the letter that I sent to my Member of Parliment (MP), Wayne Marston on June 17th 2008, after the tabling of bill C-61.
The American DMCA has many faults, but one of the more serious faults found within is the so-called “anti-circumvention law”. This law essentially makes it illegal for Americans to bypass electronic [...]
Lain Everliving asked me some random questions over a year ago.
1. When you, uh, tongue-raped me at Otakon, you whispered in my ear that I “wasn’t your first.” Who was, and perhaps more importantly, why? (If I’ve asked you this before, please forgive my bad memory)
I attempted to execute the same maneuver (an unexpected stage [...]